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Christian de Muizon is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Paleontology and related subfields.

The scientist's work primarily covers topics such as:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Christian de Muizon has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte," 2021, published in PLoS ONE
  • "Cranial anatomy of Andinodelphys cochabambensis, a stem metatherian from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia," 2020, published in Geodiversitas
  • "The longirostrine crocodyliforms from Bolivia and their evolution through the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary," 2020, published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru)," 2020, published in Life
  • "What are "opossum-like" fossils? The phylogeny of herpetotheriid and peradectid metatherians, based on new features from the petrosal anatomy," 2020, published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mario Urbina
  • Olivier Lambert
  • Giovanni Bianucci
  • Alberto Collareta
  • Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi

Christian de Muizon's publications often appear in these venues:

  • Geodiversitas
  • MorphoMuseuM
  • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • The Anatomical Record

The scientist's subfields of study include Paleontology, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Geology and paleontology of late Cenozoic marine deposits in the Sacaco area (Peru)

    Christian de Muizon;Thomas J. Devries

  • The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Klaas Post;Christian de Muizon

  • BIOCHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE EARLIEST SOUTH AMERICAN PALEOGENE MAMMALIAN FAUNAS

    Javier N. Gelfo;Francisco J. Goin;Michael O. Woodburne;Christian De Muizon

  • Mayulestes ferox, a borhyaenoid (Metatheria, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia. Phylogenetic and paleobiologic implications

    Christian de Muizon

  • The anatomy and relationships of Piscobalaena nana (Cetacea, Mysticeti) a Cetotheriidae s.s. from the early Pliocene of Peru.

    Virginie Bouetel;Christian de Muizon

  • The "condylarths" (archaic Ungulata, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia): implications on the origin of the South American ungulates

    Christian de Muizon;Richard L. Cifelli

  • The Origin of High-Frequency Hearing in Whales.

    Morgan Churchill;Manuel Martinez-Caceres;Christian de Muizon;Jessica Mnieckowski

  • An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene of Peru

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  • Gradual adaptation of bone structure to aquatic lifestyle in extinct sloths from Peru.

    Eli Amson;Christian de Muizon;Michel Laurin;Christine Argot

  • Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships.

    Samantha Presslee;Samantha Presslee;Samantha Presslee;Graham J. Slater;François Roger Francis Pujos;Analia Marta Forasiepi

  • A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

    Michael Westbury;Sina Baleka;Axel Barlow;Stefanie Hartmann

  • Alcidedorbignya inopinata, a basal pantodont (Placentalia, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia: anatomy, phylogeny and palaeobiology

    Christian De Muizon;Guillaume Billet;Christine Argot;Sandrine Ladevèze

  • Dentition and Jaw of Kokopellia juddi, a Primitive Marsupial or Near-Marsupial from the Medial Cretaceous of Utah

    Richard L. Cifelli;Christian de Muizon

  • Carnivorous dental adaptations in tribosphenic mammals and phylogenetic reconstruction

    Christian De Muizon;Brigitte Lange‐Badré

  • Macroraptorial sperm whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Christian De Muizon

  • The affinities of Notocetus vanbenedeni, an Early Miocene Platanistoid(Cetacea, Mammalia) from Patagonia, Southern Argentina

    Christian de Muizon

  • Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales

    Olivier Lambert;Manuel Martínez-Cáceres;Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma

  • La fauna de mamíferos de Tiupampa (Paleoceno Inferior, formación Santa Lucía),Bolivia

    Christian de Muizon

  • A new carnivorous marsupial from the Palaeocene of Bolivia and the problem of marsupial monophyly

    Christian de Muizon

  • Late Oligocene mesotheriids (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Salla and Lacayani (Bolivia): implications for basal mesotheriid phylogeny and distribution

    Guillaume Billet;Christian De Muizon;Bernardino Mamani Quispe

  • Exceptionally preserved North American Paleogene metatherians: adaptations and discovery of a major gap in the opossum fossil record.

    Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra;Sandrine Ladevèze;Inés Horovitz;Christine Argot

  • Late Cretaceous vertebrates, including mammals,from Tiupampa, Southcentral Bolivia

    Christian de Muizon;Mireille Gayet;Alain Lavenu;Larry G. Marshall

  • The evolution of feeding adaptations of the aquatic sloth Thalassocnus

    Christian De Muizon;H. Gregory Mcdonald;Rodolfo Salas;Mario Urbina

  • Walrus-like feeding adaptation in a new cetacean from the Pliocene of Peru

    Christian de Muizon

  • Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)

    Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma;Walter Landini;Klaas Post

  • The cranial anatomy of Thalassocnus (Xenarthra, Mammalia), a derived nothrothere from the Neogene of the Pisco Formation (Peru)

    H. Gregory Mcdonald;Christian De Muizon

  • The youngest species of the aquatic sloth Thalassocnus and a reassessment of the relationships of the nothrothere sloths (Mammalia: Xenarthra)

    Christian De Muizon;H. Gregory Mcdonald;Rodolfo Salas;Mario Urbina

  • Craniodental anatomy of late Oligocene archaeohyracids (Notoungulata, Mammalia) from Bolivia and Argentina and new phylogenetic hypotheses

    Guillaume Billet;Bryan Patterson;Christian De Muizon

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Bianucci
Giovanni Bianucci University of Pisa
Mario Urbina
Mario Urbina National University of San Marcos
Claudio Di Celma
Claudio Di Celma University of Camerino
Richard L. Cifelli
Richard L. Cifelli University of Oklahoma
Anna Gioncada
Anna Gioncada University of Pisa
Marcelo Reguero
Marcelo Reguero National University of La Plata
Igor M. Villa
Igor M. Villa University of Milano-Bicocca
Matthew J. Collins
Matthew J. Collins University of Cambridge
Stephen Wroe
Stephen Wroe University of New England
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen University of Copenhagen

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